The incompatible stew of ingredients that’s gone into this pot often feels like the real Spelling and Garth, who have shepherded BH90210, had to make similar promises to their old friends and enemies (*) in order to lure them back. So Priestley gets to direct the new pilot, Ian Ziering gets product placement for one of his lifestyle brands, and so on. There’s a scene in the second episode where the fictionalized version of Tori Spelling, who has opted to follow in her father Aaron’s footsteps and produce the revival-within-the-revival, promises all of her former co-stars whatever they want in order to do it. And at many others, it is pure soap-operatics that just involve Jason Priestley using his own name rather than Brandon Walsh’s. But at times it tries to play in the Curb space, while at others it wants to be a sincere reckoning with the aging process and the fleeting nature of celebrity.
It’s not exactly the Curb rip-off it was sold as, which is a good thing as an actor, Jennie Garth is as equipped for that as Larry David would be to do a story where he wore the same dress to the spring formal as somebody else. They contain multitudes, those Bradys.įlashback: Tina Turner Covers Dolly Parton, Kris Kristofferson on Debut Solo Album
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(*) At different times over the last 40 years, we’ve gotten a variety show (The Brady Bunch Hour ) a sitcom about Jan and Marcia and their new husbands sharing a house (The Brady Brides) a dramedy where Bobby was paralyzed and Marcia was an alcoholic, yet there was an occasional laugh track (The Bradys) and, coming up next month, an HGTV show where the actors who played the Brady kids will renovate the house that was used as the exterior of their TV home (A Very Brady Renovation). Nor is it even the first meta reunion of this type: One of the best Curb Your Enthusiasm seasons was similarly framed as Larry getting the Seinfeld cast back together for a sequel special.
It would probably not make a list of the five weirdest TV revivals of all time, in part because most of those slots would go to Brady Bunch spin-offs (*). BH90210 is a reunion of Beverly Hills 90210in which most of the original stars of Beverly Hills 90210 play themselves as they try to mount… a reunion of Beverly Hills 90210.